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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - SEPTEMBER 24: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Johnny Mercer Theatre on September 24, 2024 in Savannah, Georgia. The former president spoke to attendees on various plans including the tax code, U.S. manufacturing, and future economic opportunities if reelected a second term. Trump continues campaigning around the country ahead of the November 5 presidential election.  (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Trump is swift boating the midterms

Heather Digby Parton

POTUS is considering an executive order declaring a national voting emergency. Its co-author helped sink John Kerry

Mother-to-be (d3sign via Getty Images)

Trump's pro-birth agenda failing moms

Nicole Karlis

As the Trump admin urges folks to have more kids, new data shows early pregnancy care moving in the wrong direction

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks to the press on Oct. 17, 2025. (Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)

Special elections spell trouble for GOP

Charlie Hunt - The Conversation

Results from the first 15 months of Trump's reign appear to spell very bad news for the Republicans

Donald Trump at Palm Beach International Airport, Feb. 27, 2026. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's Iran war, and the world's shame

Andrew O'Hehir

Trump's attack on Iran is an act of vanity and desperation, fueled by America's collective moral blindness

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Americans react to the US-Israeli strikes on Iran as many Congressional members argue for a war powers vote to keep the White House in check. (Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images)

Congress to challenge Trump on Iran

CK Smith

Lawmakers demand war powers vote arguing the White House bypassed Congress in launching military action in Iran

Jon Cryer, Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy on set of "Pretty In Pink," 1986. (Paramount/Getty Images)

Justice for the "Pretty in Pink" women

Coleman Spilde

Forty years on, it's time to admit John Hughes' film is worse off for dulling Andie and Iona's shine

Miss Piggy on “The Muppet Show” (Disney/Mitch Haaseth)

Everyone should live like Miss Piggy

Melanie McFarland

Celebrated in a culture that teaches girls to shrink themselves, Miss Piggy has long stood as a glittering rebuttal

Alan Cumming, host of the U.S. version of “The Traitors,” appears against a backdrop of plated smoked salmon, nodding to the show’s unexpected culinary cameo. (Photo illustration by Salon / NBCUniversal / Getty Images)

Salmon is the real Traitors power player

Francesca Giangiulio

On the cutthroat reality show, the players’ favorite breakfast harbors its own secrets

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President Donald Trump delivers the first State of the Union address of his second term to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, February 24, 2026. (Pool photo by Kenny Holston/The New York Times)

Judges: Trump is a threat to rule of law

Garrett Owen

Trump's attempts to impeach two federal judges draws outcry from legal experts

Iran strikes back after US-Israel missiles hit hundreds of sites within Iran. US-Israel allies in the region, like Bahrain (above), are now short-range targets for Iran's retaliation. (Anadolu / Getty Images)

US-Israel strike Iran for regime change

CK Smith

Trump urges Iranians to rise up as military action deepens regional instability

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Jan. 7, 2026. Behind her is Border Patrol official Greg Bovino. (Carlos Gonzalez/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Abolish ICE? Absolutely — and DHS too

Mike Lofgren

No reform can fix Trump’s corrupt secret police — and the whole bureaucracy of repression should go as well

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Donald Trump at the White House, Feb. 13, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images))

Trump’s risky public health charade

Troy Farah

From an imaginary hospital ship to Greenland to a fake new WHO, Trump's health efforts are all for show

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Former Treasury Secretary & White House Economic Advisor Larry Summers. (Robin Marchant/Getty Images)

Summers' soft landing after Epstein docs

Yana van der Meulen Rodgers - The Conversation

Harvard is signaling that powerful men can outlast gross misconduct with their honorifics intact

Linda and Paul McCartney as seen in "Man on the Run" (Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios )

The risky reinvention of Paul McCartney

Kenneth Womack

Filmmaker Morgan Neville explores Paul McCartney’s most human chapter in "Man on the Run"

A seven month-old male macaque monkey named Punch, who was abandoned by his mother shortly after birth (JIJI PRESS / AFP via Getty Images / Japan OUT)

Punch deserves better. And we do too

Andi Zeisler

His viral stardom and the scramble for stuffed orangutans show how quickly — and cravenly — trauma becomes trend

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to the press after her deposition with the House Oversight Committee as they investigate links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

MAGA undercuts GOP on Hillary

Sophia Tesfaye

How Lauren Boebert and Benny Johnson ruined James Comer’s big shot

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Robert De Niro speaks outside of Manhattan Criminal Court during Donald Trump's criminal trial in May 2024 (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

De Niro skewers Trump at SOTU rival

Brian Karem

A National Press Club counter-event highlighted fear — and hope — ahead of the midterms

President Donald Trump speaks with members of the Joint Chiefs of staff before delivering his State of the Union address on February 24, 2026 amid a U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf threatening Iran. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Why Congress tried to dodge Iran vote

Russell Payne

Iran hawks are maneuvering to have their war without their fingerprints on it

Voters fill out their ballots at a polling station in New York City on Election Day, November 5, 2024. (LEONARDO MUNOZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Voter roll tool keeps making mistakes

Jen Fifield, Zach Despart - ProPublica

An expanded federal tool for identifying noncitizens on voter rolls is making persistent mistakes

Congressman Seth Moulton speaks during a Veterans Day town hall event in Marblehead, MA on November 11, 2024. (Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Moulton: ICE agents must be "prosecuted"

Alex Galbraith

The Mass. Democrat called for criminal prosecution against ICE's lawlessness in a new interview

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Hillary Clinton speaks after a screening of "ZURWSKI v Texas" at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2024 in Telluride, Colorado. (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images)

Clinton bashes DOJ, GOP on Epstein files

Alex Galbraith

The former Secretary of State said Republicans had turned the case into a political stunt

Sarah Chalke as Elliot Reid, Zach Braff as John “J.D.” Dorian and Donald Faison as Christopher Turk in "Scrubs" (Disney/Brian Bowen Smith)

The uplifting medicine of "Scrubs"

Melanie McFarland

For some, this sitcom's jabbing satire is easier to swallow than the cutting realism of "The Pitt"

President Donald Trump has talked of military intervention in Mexico (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Mexico could be Trump's forever war

Heather Digby Parton

Even after the killing of El Mencho, Trump wants Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to do more to fight drugs

Cacio E Pepe (Getty Images/Ekaterina Fedotova)

Too tired to chop? Cook this instead

Joy Saha

Embrace lazy cooking to its fullest with these five recipes from a professional chef

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